Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
William Cullen Bryant
Henry Moore
Thomas Fuller
Virgil Thomson
Judy Garland
Georg C. Lichtenberg
All authors
Today's birthdays
1821 - Charles Baudelaire
1930 - Nathaniel Branden
1926 - Hugh Hefner
1981 - Moran Atias
1933 - Gian Maria Volonte
1963 - Marc Jacobs
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Architect
Saint
Philosopher
Celebrity
Comedian
Astronaut
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Favorite authors
Michael Chabon Quotes
Michael Chabon Quotes
Michael Chabon
American
Author
Born:
May 24
,
1963
Me
Think
Time
Work
Writing
You
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
Michael Chabon
Time
Breath
Every
Every Time
Out
Another
Review
Deep
Deep Breath
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
Michael Chabon
War
World
Think
Totally
About
Could
Write
Exciting
Soon
New
Read
Clicked
New Place
Place
Theater
Two
World War
World War Two
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon
Solitude
Superman
Thinking
Too
His
Fortress
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
Michael Chabon
Best
You
Writing
Solution
About
Absorb
Ready
Thing
Zone
It is unusual for Joe to be that way, but that's what interested me.
Michael Chabon
Me
Way
Joe
Unusual
Interested
I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.
Michael Chabon
Work
Love
Devastating
Road
His
Revolutionary
Richard
Novel
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.
Michael Chabon
Love
Time
Me
Fire
Back
Books
Say
About
More
Reader
Than
Going
Maybe
Cholera
Keep
Keep Going
They Say
Pale
Things
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.
Michael Chabon
Book
Amazing
Before
Starts
Too
Meeting
Characters
Parallel
Reluctantly
Share
Forced
Bed
How
Moby
Moby Dick
Begins
Just
Realized
Noticed
Two
I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear.
Michael Chabon
Good
Woman
Fear
Wife
Thought
Three
Positively
Fact
Spite
Idea
Another
Another Woman
Editor
Still
Surprised
Again
Them
Agent
Then
Good Idea
Joe is the hero and Sammy is the sidekick. That's how I feel about it.
Michael Chabon
Hero
Sidekick
Joe
About
Feel
How
Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.
Michael Chabon
Me
Books
Tell
Comic
Comic Books
Were
Just
Story
Means
I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.
Michael Chabon
Time
Grief
Memory
Speak
Remember
Father
First
Tossed
Blanket
Cheering
Read
First Time
His
Up
Mourning
Being
Subtle
Description
Tearing
I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
Michael Chabon
Writing
Several
Collapse
Abandoned
Clay
Had
Policemen
Yiddish
Same
Union
Moments
Novel
Utter
Second
I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.
Michael Chabon
Work
Morning
Wife
Our
Berkeley
More
Week
Share
Days
Daytime
Until
House
Around
Five
Office
Behind
Working
Who
Works
Night
Starting
Ideas are the easy part. I spend a lot of time batting them away, trying to keep them from distracting me from what I actually have to focus on and finish. A lot of times, they are a siren temptress beckoning me with the promise of a much shorter, simpler, more slender novel over the horizon, but of course that's very dangerous.
Michael Chabon
Time
Me
Dangerous
Focus
Slender
Spend
Batting
Promise
Distracting
Easy
Horizon
Finish
More
Simpler
Part
Over
Ideas
Course
Lot
Very
Siren
Times
Trying
Them
Much
Novel
Keep
Away
Actually
It's always thrilling to encounter the sweep of time in a work of fiction in a way that feels authentic and real.
Michael Chabon
Work
Time
Way
Thrilling
Feels
Always
Real
Encounter
Authentic
Fiction
Sweep
I'm a big fan of Tarantino's work, and I think I'm fascinated by his evident sense of entitlement to use black characters and black material that he feels not simply comfortable with, but that it's his right and privilege - the apparent ease with which he handles black characters, fully aware that he's been criticized for that, too.
Michael Chabon
Work
Entitlement
Black
Big
Sense
Think
Too
Ease
Evident
Characters
Criticized
He
Simply
Feels
Comfortable
Material
Been
Big Fan
His
Tarantino
Privilege
Fan
Which
Use
Apparent
Fascinated
Fully
Aware
Right
I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.
Michael Chabon
Good
You
Memory
Words
Remember
Try
Word
Made
Feeling
Good Memory
Give
Almost
Come
Like
Know
Also
How
Just
Formed
English
Good Feeling
Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.
Michael Chabon
Hope
You
Book
Vision
Will
First
Nothing
Way
Out
Write
Wrong
Like
Go
Begins
Done
Going
Initial
Ever
Start
Second
When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.
Michael Chabon
Science
Writing
Try
Books
Those
Kinds
Someday
Write
Science Fiction
Were
Began
Very
Diet
Heavy
Fiction
Fantasy
Even
Early
Imagine
No more Michael Chabon quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Michael Chabon.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau